James Wells, "Indiana's Coolest Guy" (says so on his website), wasn't eligible for LASIK because his eyesight is too poor. So, he got lenses implanted in his eyes instead!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/implantable-lenses-for-your-eyes/Here's a fun (and a little different) crossword game for you: insert a letter into the various spots - the clues are all on the board. Link [Flash] - via growabrain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/crossword-a-flash-game/The recent Loch Ness video footage is so ... unsatisfying. Here's one that really spotlights Nessie's star quality. Hit play or go to Link [LiveLeak]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/the-real-footage-of-loch-ness-monster/Here's billboard ambush marketing at its best: Jet Airways, one of the leading Airways in India anoounced to their customers that they have changed. Kingfisher Airlines, on top of it whipped them by saying "We m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/gotcha-billboard-ambush-marketing-at-its-best/Dennis Hope, "Head Cheese" (really) of the Lunar Embassy, has been selling real estate on the moon since 1980.Stupid? Don't laugh: he's made $9 million so far. Who wants to join me in opening a competing interg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/man-made-9-million-selling-lunar-real-estate/Indecisive yet ashamed of lugging that Magic 8 Ball (or something like it, say the God-Jesus Toy Robot) around?Here's something more discreet: a 3-in wide Decision Maker ring, with LED light that "spins" around...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/decision-maker-ring/Ladies: Tired of dirty toilets? Can't get your man to lift the toilet seat up? Don't get mad - get him this Gold Man pee funnel instead!http://www.goldmanworld.com/Front.html - via Random Good Stuff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/gold-man-pee-funnel/The Marree Man [wiki] is 4.2 km tall figure of a guy throwing a stick carved into the earth of South Australia. It was spotted by a charter pilot from the air in 1998.The lines of the figure was made with a plough attach...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/the-marree-man-worlds-largest-manmade-art/Desperate to escape an abusive employer, an Indonesian housekeeper fashioned a rope from pieces of cloth tied together and climbed out the window! An Indonesian maid, after allegedly suffering from months of abuse, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/18/housekeeper-escaped-with-homemade-cloth-rope/John Speed's collection of maps was published in 1611 as The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine: presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning: with the shires,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/the-maps-of-john-speed/Photographer Michael Wolf has been featured on Neatorama before. His latest project opens in exhibit June 30 in San Francisco. Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate, is composed of 100 room...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/100x100/EnglishRussia.com - (one of my favorite sites, btw) - just posted a video of what is supposedly an UFO taken in Belarus. I don't think that this is the final proof we've all been waiting for, but it is interesting nev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/belarussian-ufo/Happy Father's Day, everyone! Found at Miss Cellania (with excellent links on everything related to Father's Day and Fatherhood)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/happy-fathers-day/Now that's a dog cage! Created by designGO! studio: http://designgostudio.com/ [Flash, you'd have to hunt around for it]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/dog-cage-by-designgo/Can't use chopsticks? Here's a 2-in-1 spoon and "chopsticks" utensil called froggetmee: Link - via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/froggetmee-chopsticks/What has elementary school's come to these days? Indianapolis sixth-grader Matt Porter was awarded "Most Likely Not To Have Children" award ... by his teachers!The certificates were signed by the teachers w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/most-likely-not-to-have-children-award/Australian scientists are trying to create the world's roundest objects: perfect silicon spheres to define a kilogram:Scientists will use the spheres to determine how many silicon atoms make up a kilogram, and this w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/the-worlds-roundest-objects-perfect-silicon-spheres/One thousand years before Disney created Mickey Mouse, a French artist got the same idea:One thousand years before the cartoon character Mickey Mouse was even a glint in Walt Disney's eye, a French artist created a b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/iron-age-mickey/A national manhunt in China finally captured Heng Tinghan, the owner of a brick kiln in Shanxi province, who is accused of enslaving his workers:[Heng] has become a central villain in a national drama over possibly h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/slavery-scandal-in-china-bad-boss-captured/Talented actor, musician, and comedian Will Smith is also good with a Rubik’s Cube! Push play or go to Daily Motion. -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/solving-a-rubiks-cube-in-55-seconds/Yellowforks has a gallery of nerd tattoos. After all, who wouldn’t want to show their lifetime loyalty to a computer system, gadget, or game character? http://www.yellowforks.com/full.aspx?fork=23 -via Johnâ€...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/nerd-tattoos/Seok Gyeong-Jae is a robot designer in South Korea. At his upcoming wedding, the master of ceremonies will be Tiro, a robot he helped design! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/17/robot-to-emcee-wedding/I don't know if you think global warming is real or not - all I know is that the weather is too darned hot, and all indications are that this summer will be really hot. The National Climatic Data Center's weathe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/its-hot-hot-hot-temperature-anomaly-chart/MIT Media Laboratory researcher Guy Hoffman created this robotic desk lamp called AUR that can track its user and set "mood lighting" too!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | AUR website - via Mr. Future...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/aur-robotic-desktop-lamp-that-follows-you-around/The Anti-Jesus Car, spotted in Houston Texas. Complete with detailed pics of the various ... um, adornments and bumper stickers. And check out that Yahoo! late 90's color scheme! http://www.clemsontalk.com/vb/showthread....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/anti-jesus-car/To save bed space, clinics in a Chinese city in Guizhou province are letting people walk the street with their IV infusions. And that's not the weirdest thing about it: the patients are actually happier that way! The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/chinese-clinics-let-patients-walk-around-with-their-ivs/PillCam is a capsule-sized miniature camera that lets doctor see the inside of your intestines esophagus:The patient swallows the capsule lying down, and is then raised in a series of inclinations over a total of 5 m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/pillcam-takes-snapshots-of-your-intestines/The iCoaster is a roller coaster (or is it Rube-Golbergian) toy that lets you set up a complex maze for your marble to zoom down. Check out the magnetic elevator that lifts the marble up! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/icoaster-roller-coaster-for-your-marbles/We wrote about the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried as a time capsule a while ago. It has now been dug out now: and boy, was it rusty!A car buried in Oklahoma in 1957 as a time capsule to mark the US state's 50th anniv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/buried-for-50-years-rusty-plymouth-belvedere-time-capsule/
